From the first application to the final allocation, it has taken more than three months to finalize all the 1999 harness racing dates for Maine’s agricultural fairs and extended meets. But on Monday in Augusta, the Maine Harness Racing Commission allocated 234 live race dates for 1999. Read More
It may not seem like a big change at first glance, but one of the big pluses of FrontierVision’s upcoming cable channel expansion for sports-minded Bangor customers is the debut of Lewiston United Paramount Network affiliate WPME (Channel 35). WPME will officially replace fellow UPN… Read More
OLD TOWN – The Old Town High School pool became a sacred place Thursday during the dual meet between Bangor and Old Town. For seven Indian swimmers, it was their last home meet. They lost 133-53 to the Rams, but the score didn’t paint a… Read More
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STANDISH – Shannon Field scored 19 points and Sara Beane tossed in 12 as St. Joseph’s College built a 40-26 halftime lead and withstood a furious Husson College rally to edge the Braves 69-66 in a Maine Athletic Conference game Thursday night. Field had 14… Read More
STANDISH – Shannon Field scored 19 points and Sara Beane tossed in 12 as St. Joseph’s College built a 40-26 halftime lead and withstood a furious Husson College rally to edge the Braves 69-66 in a Maine Athletic Conference game Thursday night. Field had 14… Read More
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ORONO – In recognition of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the University of Maine Women’s Resource Center will sponsor a reception for the UMaine women’s hockey team Sunday. The reception, which is open to all fans and interested members of the community, is… Read More
Halfway through its America East schedule, the University of Maine women’s basketball team appears headed for the No. 1 seed in the league tournament, which is scheduled March 3-6 at Patrick Gym in Burlington, Vt. Despite a rash of injuries, UMaine is 13-4 after rattling… Read More
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DOVER-FOXCROFT – Brooke Hartford nailed a jumper from just inside the free-throw line at the buzzer to lift Foxcroft Academy to a 46-45 schoolgirl basketball win over John Bapst of Bangor Thursday. Holli Nichols had 12 points on four 3-pointers for the winners. Hartford finished… Read More
When the University of Maine women’s hockey team faces Colby College this weekend, the Bears will face one well-seasoned goalie. Josie Chapman may not be the best in Division I, but she has stopped the puck more times than any other goalie in the league. Read More
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND – Brothers Mike Mathien and Tim Mathien combined on 7-for-11 shooting from the free-throw line in the fourth quarter to help lift John Bapst of Bangor to a 49-47 schoolboy basketball win over MDI Thursday. Mike tossed in 25 points and Tim… Read More
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND – Brothers Mike Mathien and Tim Mathien combined on 7-for-11 shooting from the free-throw line in the fourth quarter to help lift John Bapst of Bangor to a 49-47 schoolboy basketball win over MDI Thursday. Mike tossed in 25 points and Tim… Read More
ORONO – The Legends Restaurant & Sports Bar Indoor Golf Tournament will begin on Feb. 1 and run through April 7. The tourney will be a scramble event and will be played on the Pebble Beach Golf Course simulator at XL Golf in Hermon. Prizes will be awarded… Read More
CALAIS — The School Committee Thursday night denied veteran basketball coach Arnold Clark’s grievance that school administrators wrongfully failed to rehire him as the boys varsity basketball coach for the 1998-99 season. After the five-hour hearing, school committee Chairwoman Leah McLean said the board would… Read More
BANGOR — Comair officials flew into town Thursday to ease the frustrations of some travelers upset that Delta Air Lines is pulling its high-volume passenger planes from Bangor International Airport on March 2. Comair, a Delta subsidiary, will replace the major airline’s aircraft with 50-person… Read More
Down East Hospice, which covers all of Washington County delivering free, nonmedical services to terminally ill people and their families, is planning a brand-new fund-raiser that sounds like quite a treat. This event has something for everyone. The organization is hosting a “Be Our Valentine… Read More
BANGOR — For decades photographs of Justice David Roberts’ children have hung in courthouses across the state. So have their artwork and their childlike crafts. The state’s judiciary and legal community watched them grow and on Thursday turned out by the hundreds to support them as they bade… Read More
AUGUSTA — Members of the Legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee postponed action Thursday on two deer hunting bills, while giving unanimous support to a measure legalizing the sale of moose bones. A fourth bill that would require law enforcement officers and other government workers… Read More
BRUNSWICK — The house where Harriet Beecher Stowe lived when she penned “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” sold at auction Wednesday, ensuring its continued operation as an inn and restaurant. Two business partners offered the winning bid of $865,000 for the property whose previous owner went out… Read More
AUGUSTA — When one child with special educational needs moved into a northern Maine school district several years ago, the system laid off teachers and cut classes to cover the extraordinary costs. This situation, repeated in small towns throughout the state, should not be happening,… Read More
AUGUSTA — Gov. Angus King’s on-again off-again plan to deliver a formal budget address to the Legislature is back on, even though public hearings on the $4.5 billion two-year spending package are well under way. King, whose aides originally requested time for him to make… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maine lawmakers on both sides of issues affecting organized labor paid tribute Thursday to the retiring chief of the Maine AFL-CIO. Longtime federation president Charles O’Leary was honored at the State House shortly before handing over the leadership reins to the first woman… Read More
CANTON — Two people were killed in a fire that swept through a farmhouse on Thursday, bringing the number of fire deaths to eight in the first month of the year, officials said. The town’s fire chief spotted the blaze at 6 a.m. but firefighters… Read More
AUGUSTA — Utility officials are wondering whether a 10-month-old law has turned Great Northern Paper Co., a subsidiary of Bowater Inc., into an electric utility that is exempt from oversight by Maine regulators. Last March, GNP officials asked lawmakers to amend the company’s state operating… Read More
AUGUSTA — The state’s new management plan for the Allagash Wilderness Waterway includes measures that will increase wilderness protection in some areas and increase recreational access in others, officials said Thursday. The Department of Conservation plan released Thursday updates a 1973 plan for the 92-mile… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine State Housing Authority is among the recipients of the eighth annual Margaret Chase Smith Maine State Quality Awards. The awards seek to promote excellence in business practice based on the national Baldridge quality awards. Smith said in a 1991 letter during… Read More
BANGOR — Two Dominican nationals who were arrested May 28, 1998, as they headed for Augusta to complete an $8,000 drug deal were sentenced to prison Thursday at U.S. District Court. Fernelis Ferreras-Segura, 25, and Milton Manuel Rivas-Rivas, 24, of Lynn, Mass., earlier pleaded guilty… Read More
AUGUSTA — State Corrections Commissioner Martin Magnusson had a shock at breakfast Thursday. While reading his newspaper, the commissioner learned that the Legislature had decided to take another look at the 1,000-bed, $63 million prison being planned for Warren. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
YORK — A two-year legal battle that went all the way to Maine’s highest court has ended in a ruling that requires the town of York to repair a dirt road that’s riddled with potholes and often flooded. “The court has stood up for the… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The state’s potato industry plans to test-market an 8-pound bag of similarly sized potatoes to gauge consumer preferences, industry officials said Wednesday. If consumers show acceptance of the new pack, a new premium grade could be implemented during future marketing seasons. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Roman Catholic bishop called on legislators to seek a balance between protecting the environment and economic development. The Most Rev. Joseph Gerry announced the diocese’s environmental position Thursday, fresh from his visit with Pope John Paul II in St. Louis. At the… Read More
Now that the Senate has demonstrated it does not have the votes to remove President Clinton from office and has limited testimony to the taped depositions of three who already have been thoroughly interrogated, the most esteemed legislative body in the nation — nay, the world — can… Read More
When Jennifer Tefft decided to hone her skills as a singer and a guitarist, she went directly to the people. Tefft would rise at 4 a.m. and take her guitar to the subway stations in Cambridge, Mass. There, she would play for commuters, earning anywhere… Read More
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The greatest service which can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to it’s culture.” The Maine Herb Society agrees. From pre-historic tribes to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks,and Romans, to the spice trade of the Orient to the holistic movement of… Read More
These days, Jay Geils has got the blues. But that ain’t bad. Instead, he’s just come full circle. For 17 years, guitarist Geils headed up the J. Geils Band, which blended blues and rock on such hits as “Centerfold,” “Freeze-Frame,” “Must Of Got Lost” and… Read More
Nothing better illustrates the reason the Legislature has overwhelmed itself with nearly 3,000 bills than Rep. Tom Shields’ “English First” proposal, which sounds fine until anyone gives it a scintilla of thought. Then it sounds terrible: a divisive, ill-informed, misdirected idea that makes Maine, a state built in… Read More
In a Maine Style remembrance story Thursday, Jan. 21, on the life of Richard Pasvogel, the names of two schools were left out. Besides teaching music at Searsport Elementary School, Pasvogel taught at Frankfort and Stockton Springs elementary schools. He coached girls basketball at Bucksport High School. Read More
Because of an editing error, a story in Thursday’s MaineDay section contained the misspelled name of the winner of the Bangor Chamber of Commerce’s Norbert X. Dowd Award. The correct spelling is G. Peirce Webber. Read More
LINCOLN, N.H. — With little thought for their own safety, ski patrol members lined up on the steep, mountain woods for the usual rescue operation. Digging into the frozen snow as best they could, they began passing down one litter, hand to hand. Then another. Then a third. Read More
PORTLAND — Police officers must collect only one breath sample in drunken driving cases, the state supreme court said Thursday. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled in the consolidated cases of five people charged with drunken driving in York County. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
MADAWASKA — A harsher than normal winter is causing some financial woes for the town of Madawaska, selectmen were told Wednesday night. The Public Works Department is running out of sand and salt; snow removal crews have been out more than usual, cutting into the… Read More
CARIBOU — The North Country Animal Hospital and the Caribou Parks and Recreation Department will host the “Dog Gone Obstacle Challenge,” in conjunction with the Caribou winter carnival, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, at the Caribou Recreation Center. This event is open to all canines and their… Read More
CARIBOU — The Caribou Parks and Recreation Department will hold its annual “Father-Daughter Sweetheart Dance” from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, at the Caribou Recreation Center. Refreshments and music by DJ Express will be provided. There will also be photos by Duane for… Read More
BROWNVILLE JUNCTION — The board of directors for SAD 41 unanimously voted Wednesday to appoint David A. Walker of Milo superintendent of schools for the next three years. He will replace Superintendent J. Kenneth Laux, who will resign in June after six years on the job. Read More
BANGOR — An Aroostook County man linked to a methamphetamine ring known as the “Bridgewater group” changed his pleas to guilty Thursday on two drug-related counts that could net him a maximum sentence of life in prison and millions of dollars in fines. As a… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The city will move ahead with a scaled-down version of a controversial road project this summer while local planning officials review the municipal road design ordinance. The project will include a new bridge over Gray Brook on Winkumpaugh Road and improvements to the… Read More
ROCKLAND — Superior Court Justice John Atwood sentenced convicted sex offender Richard E. DeMass Jr., 35, of Warren to 20 years in prison with five years suspended Thursday in Knox County Superior Court. DeMass was found guilty of 28 counts of gross sexual assault on… Read More
MACHIAS — The Machias solid waste budget and those of three other area towns should decrease if Machias strikes an agreement with the group that controls municipal use of an incinerator in Orrington, according to Town Manager Scott Harriman. Harriman said earlier this week that… Read More
BANGOR — While many people’s hobbies have them running, biking and hiking, Arthur Comstock’s lifelong avocation has been sitting. That’s not to suggest that he’s been at all inactive. By most accounts, few members sitting on hospital boards in northern Maine have spent so much time working so… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The city owns a one-week interest in five time-share units at a local condominium resort. The units, located at the Acadia Village Resort on Route 1, are not one of the perks for the city councilors. All five are tax-acquired property, taken by… Read More
OLD TOWN — A doe pulled from the water Thursday afternoon may or may not survive her fall through the ice on Pushaw Lake. Warden Amy Nickerson reported that the rescue by Jules and Gloria Ouellette saved the young deer’s life, but the extent of her injuries is… Read More
Madawaska District Court Troy D. Ouellette, 24, Van Buren, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, $400, jail 48 hours, license suspended 90 days. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
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MOUNT DESERT — Despite a projected 7 percent hike in the town’s budget, taxpayers will see an increase of only about 1.18 percent in their tax bills this year. If the proposed budget is approved by voters at a March 2 town meeting, taxpayers owning… Read More
VEAZIE — At their Monday meeting, town councilors here will consider a proposed ban on gunfire within town boundaries. The controversial measure would essentially prohibit hunting — at least hunting with a gun — in the developing town, which currently allows the discharge of shotguns… Read More
BELFAST — The Waldo County grand jury handed up indictments against the following individuals Tuesday. One indictment was impounded, pending the arrest of the person accused. Francis Cushman, 32, of Brewer, reckless conduct with dangerous weapon and aggravated assault. Cushman was indicted for an incident… Read More
We would like to express our gratitude to a number of people who generously supported Bangor’s sister city, Carasque, El Salvador, with donations of material aid. Our family delegation to Carasque, with the intention of spending four months in the village, will be carrying these tokens of care… Read More
The television coverage is doing the electorate a great favor by showing the true lack of bipartisan effort in the Senate’s effort to determine President Clinton’s fitness to continue to hold office. We can see that prejudice on both sides has obviously destroyed the Senate’s ability to be… Read More
Thank you to Jenna Russell for her feature story (BDN, Jan. 19) on the Bangor High School student art show currently on exhibit at the Clark House Gallery. As I walked through the gallery on Saturday, I met up with the owner, Susan Maasch. She… Read More
It’s hard to believe the [amount of] money that is being spent on the sound barrier on I-95 near the Broadway exit. For 23 years, I have heard airplanes flying over my house; do you suppose when the interstate barrier is done I can have a dome put… Read More
Due to the error concerning the Class B Ellsworth Eagles team at the cheerleading competition on Saturday, it was revealed that the girls were not wearing barrettes, which is against the rules as was stated, and because the remaining nine cheerleaders performed for their school, minus the seven… Read More
FAIRFIELD — A state fact-finding panel is set next week to hear arguments in a six-month contract dispute between SAD 49 and its teachers. At the heart of the dispute between the SAD 49 Teachers Association and the school district are salary levels, health insurance… Read More
ROCKPORT — The Samoset Resort has a new owner who wants to add 100 rooms to the world-famous hotel. Ocean Properties of Portsmouth, N.H., a company owned by Thomas Walsh, a hotel operator with Bangor ties, was expected to complete the purchase this week. Terms… Read More
PORTLAND — A lawsuit by a Florida utility that is trying to get out of its $846 million agreement to buy Central Maine Power Group’s plants has been delayed, officials said Thursday. The lawsuit was supposed to go to trial on Tuesday in federal court… Read More
WASHINGTON — President Clinton’s chief spokesman on Thursday cited remarks by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins as an example of Republican hypocrisy and criticized her proposal to hold a “finding of fact” vote before senators vote on articles of impeachment. White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, speaking… Read More
BREWER — For the first time since he joined the Brewer Police Department 22 years ago, Steve Barker finds himself temporarily between jobs. At the end of last week, Barker ended a yearlong stint in Bosnia as a police monitor for the United Nations International… Read More
A woman, whose identity remains uncertain, was released from Penobscot County Jail Thursday after police arrested her for causing a commotion at Bangor International Airport. The woman was tentatively identified as Victoria Taylor, 22, of Springfield, Mass., although police checks of her name and the… Read More
BELFAST — Supporters of the embattled Waldo Community Development Federal Credit Union are protesting attempts by federal regulators to force a merger with another credit union. The credit union was declared insolvent last summer and is under pressure from the National Credit Union Administration to… Read More
FAIRFIELD — A special panel reviewing the November crash of the town’s new fire engine has met three times and is expected to wrap up its investigation soon, Town Manager Terry York said Thursday. Town councilors ordered a fourth investigation into the Veterans Day accident… Read More
DETROIT — Detroit selectmen have called a special town meeting to decide what to do about a fire department pumper that needs $15,000 worth of repairs. According to Fire Chief David Wright, the pumper malfunctioned at a December fire. Since then, the department’s older, backup… Read More
MONSON — The owner of the Monson post office on Thursday confirmed that he intends to construct a significant addition to the building. Bill Holland of Holland Construction said this week that U.S. Postal Service officials had proposed the addition in 1999. This will result… Read More
Unlike a graduate student who wrote to the Bangor Daily News [Jan. 25] expressing dismay over the possibility of a retirement complex at the University of Maine, I was very much excited when I heard of the proposal. Having taught sociology of aging for several… Read More
NEWPORT — David Cote, president of the Maine Taxidermy Association, commended students at Nokomis Regional High School Thursday for their efforts in his profession. Cote, a taxidermist for 23 years, and Paul Jacques, former legislator and a member of the new licensing board for taxidermists,… Read More
BOSTON — In an attempt to replenish once-abundant cod stocks, fishery officials on Thursday approved a plan to close a huge section of the Gulf of Maine, a move that could ground thousands of commercial fishermen. The New England Fishery Management Council voted to close… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The grand, curving stairway on the west side of the Somerset County Courthouse is still shrouded in plastic as painters and carpenters continue to repair damage from a ceiling collapse last month. Although the courthouse hallway is still filled with light fixtures waiting… Read More
BANGOR — A Vienna man who allegedly masterminded an escape plot at the Kennebec County Jail in Augusta more than two years ago pleaded no contest in federal court Thursday to a conspiracy to escape charge. Kenneth Meader, 49, faces a maximum penalty of five… Read More
MONSON — Monson town officials have solicited bids for a stationary trash compactor to reduce the town’s solid waste costs. Town Manager Jeanne Reed said this week that water and snow leach into the trash contained in Dumpsters, adding bulk to the solid waste. Since… Read More
WINSLOW — The police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a teen-ager accused of stealing a large sum of cash and a handgun from an elderly couple’s home. The theft was reported to the Winslow Police Department on Wednesday afternoon, after the couple… Read More
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The University of Maine at Presque Isle will offer courses as part of its American Management Association’s certificate programs. The next course, “How to Interview Effectively,” will be held Feb. 4-March 18. For information or to register, contact Conferences and Special Programs, 768-9501. —- Northern… Read More
HOULTON — A local club owner has appealed the town tax assessor’s ruling on his request for a 1998 tax abatement to the town’s board of assessment review. Frank Draus Jr., the owner of Dance & Eat, also known as Club 63, has claimed that… Read More